ZAGREB, June 29 (Hina) - Croatia's parliamentary parties applauded on Thursday evening the extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague war crimes tribunal, saying justice was finally being done. Zlatko
Tomcic, parliament's speaker and president of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS), told reporters "the man who was the creator of the Greater Serbia policy, caused war on ex-Yugoslavia's territory, the man whose policy cost more than 200,000 people their lives and more than two million their homes, does not deserve anything else but to be justly sentenced at the Hague tribunal." Ivan Ninic said: "After his going to The Hague we may assume the others from these regions accused of war crimes will also be prosecuted." The international community seeks responsibility but is late, said Vilim Herman of the Social Liberals (HSLS). He wondered what would have happened if th
ZAGREB, June 29 (Hina) - Croatia's parliamentary parties applauded
on Thursday evening the extradition of former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague war crimes tribunal, saying justice
was finally being done.
Zlatko Tomcic, parliament's speaker and president of the Croatian
Peasants' Party (HSS), told reporters "the man who was the creator
of the Greater Serbia policy, caused war on ex-Yugoslavia's
territory, the man whose policy cost more than 200,000 people their
lives and more than two million their homes, does not deserve
anything else but to be justly sentenced at the Hague tribunal."
Ivan Ninic said: "After his going to The Hague we may assume the
others from these regions accused of war crimes will also be
prosecuted."
The international community seeks responsibility but is late, said
Vilim Herman of the Social Liberals (HSLS). He wondered what would
have happened if this had occurred ten years ago, how many lives
would have been different. These regions would have certainly been
spared a bloody war and genocide, he said.
Vladimir Seks of the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
is satisfied "the Balkan executioner has ended where he belongs,"
and voiced hope "he never comes back from (the Hague prison)
Scheveningen."
"Milosevic's extradition is a good day for justice, which for
hundreds of thousands of people has come too late, but has come
nonetheless," said Vesna Pusic of the Croatian People's Party
(HNS). She said the extradition was an excellent step for
Yugoslavia and its normalisation, as well as a good starting point
for advancing relations with neighbours, particularly Croatia and
Bosnia.
According to Zlatko Kramaric of the Liberal Party (LS), Milosevic's
extradition is the best way to shed light on the events which took
place on ex-Yugoslavia's territory and whose chief architect,
since the late 1980s, was Milosevic.
Anto Kovacevic of the opposition's Croatian Christian Democratic
Union (HKDU) is satisfied Milosevic was extradited, but warned that
Serb politicians still thought in terms of the Milosevic concept of
a Greater Serbia.
"Neither (Yugoslav President) Kostunica nor (Serbia's Prime
Minister) Djindjic have given up on Milosevic's memorandum
policy," said Kovacevic. He added Croatia did not benefit from the
extradition and that the international community should be urged to
annul Milosevic's projects, starting with the Bosnian Serb
entity.
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